210093 SE M4 b: International Politics and Development (2011W)
Continuous assessment of course work
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Note: The time of your registration within the registration period has no effect on the allocation of places (no first come, first served).
- Registration is open from Mo 12.09.2011 08:00 to Mo 26.09.2011 08:00
- Registration is open from Th 29.09.2011 16:00 to Mo 03.10.2011 08:00
- Deregistration possible until Tu 01.11.2011 18:00
Details
max. 40 participants
Language: English
Lecturers
Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N
Saturday
22.10.
09:00 - 16:30
Hörsaal 2 (H2), NIG 2.Stock
Saturday
19.11.
09:00 - 16:30
Hörsaal 2 (H2), NIG 2.Stock
Saturday
10.12.
09:00 - 16:30
Hörsaal 2 (H2), NIG 2.Stock
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Aims, contents and method of the course
The seminar will discuss central themes in contemporary radical political thought, including the distinction between politics and the political, the location of politics and its relation to the state, the time of politics, the political subject, and political organisation and strategy. The seminar will be organised around the close reading of selected texts by contemporary theorists such as Ranciere, Zizek, Badiou, Hallward, Negri/Hardt and Bensaid. These texts will be discussed both in relation to contemporary political mobilisations (the alterglobalisation movement, political recomposition in the EU, recent social and political movements in Latin America and the Arab revolutions) and in relation to previous debates in the Marxist tradition (including texts by Tronti, Poulantzas, Gramsci, Lukacs, Luxemburg, Lenin, Kautsky and Marx).
Assessment and permitted materials
i) Attendance at all sessions, preparation of readings and active participation in discussion.
ii) Individual or group introductory presentation on selected text, to be decided in consultation with the lecturer. (10%).
iii) Short text (circa 1 page) abstract for each text (10%)
iv) Final research essay - 6000 words (80%)
ii) Individual or group introductory presentation on selected text, to be decided in consultation with the lecturer. (10%).
iii) Short text (circa 1 page) abstract for each text (10%)
iv) Final research essay - 6000 words (80%)
Minimum requirements and assessment criteria
The aims of the course are
i) to provide students with a thorough understanding of recent debates in contemporary radical thought and their relation to central debates in the Marxist tradition.
ii) to provide students with an awareness of the main critical literature
iii) to develop critical reading skills through intensive engagement with and comparison of selected texts
iv) to develop skills in the analysis of contemporary political events by means of central themes from classical and contemporary theoretical discussions
v) to develop discussion and presentation skills
vi) to develop research essay writing skills
i) to provide students with a thorough understanding of recent debates in contemporary radical thought and their relation to central debates in the Marxist tradition.
ii) to provide students with an awareness of the main critical literature
iii) to develop critical reading skills through intensive engagement with and comparison of selected texts
iv) to develop skills in the analysis of contemporary political events by means of central themes from classical and contemporary theoretical discussions
v) to develop discussion and presentation skills
vi) to develop research essay writing skills
Examination topics
The seminar is run as a 'block seminar'. Attendance at all sessions is obligatory. Students are expected to prepare thoroughly the reading prior to each seminar and to engage actively in seminar discussions. Each seminar will begin with a brief introductory lecture on one of the central themes in the course and student presentations on the selected texts. The main mode of work of the seminar will consist in close reading, discussion and comparison of contemporary and classical texts and consideration of their relevance for analysing contemporary politics.
Reading list
A. Badiou, Metapolitics, London: Verso, 2005.
D. Bensaïd, La politique comme art stratégique, Paris: Éditions Syllepse, 2010
P. Hallward, 'The Politics of Prescription', in South Atlantic Quarterly 2005 104(4).
M. Hardt and A. Negri, Commonwealth, Harvard: Belknap, 2009.
J. Ranciere, Disagreement: Politics And Philosophy, Minneapolis: U of Minnesota Press, 1998.
S. Zizek, First As Tragedy, Then As Farce, London: Verso, 2009.A. Gramsci, Prison Notebooks, translated and edited by Joseph A. Buttigieg, 3 Volumes,
New York: Columbia University, 1992ff. / Gefängnishefte. Herausgegeben von Klaus Bochmann und Wolfgang Fritz Haug, 10 Bände. Argument-Verlag, Hamburg 1991ff. / Quaderni del carcere, a cura di Valentino Gerratana, Turin: Einaudi, 1975.
Lenin, April Theses (1917).
G. Lukács, 'Towards a Methodology of the Problem of Organisation' (1922).
R. Luxemburg, Organisational Questions of Russian Social Democracy (1904).
K. Katusky, The Road to Power, / Der Weg zur Macht (1909).
K. Marx, Contribution to the Critique of Hegel's 'Philosophy of Right'. Introduction (1843).
N. Poulantzas, State, Power, Socialism, London: NLB, 1978.
M. Tronti, Sull’autonomia del politico, Milan: Feltrinelli, 1977.
D. Bensaïd, La politique comme art stratégique, Paris: Éditions Syllepse, 2010
P. Hallward, 'The Politics of Prescription', in South Atlantic Quarterly 2005 104(4).
M. Hardt and A. Negri, Commonwealth, Harvard: Belknap, 2009.
J. Ranciere, Disagreement: Politics And Philosophy, Minneapolis: U of Minnesota Press, 1998.
S. Zizek, First As Tragedy, Then As Farce, London: Verso, 2009.A. Gramsci, Prison Notebooks, translated and edited by Joseph A. Buttigieg, 3 Volumes,
New York: Columbia University, 1992ff. / Gefängnishefte. Herausgegeben von Klaus Bochmann und Wolfgang Fritz Haug, 10 Bände. Argument-Verlag, Hamburg 1991ff. / Quaderni del carcere, a cura di Valentino Gerratana, Turin: Einaudi, 1975.
Lenin, April Theses (1917).
G. Lukács, 'Towards a Methodology of the Problem of Organisation' (1922).
R. Luxemburg, Organisational Questions of Russian Social Democracy (1904).
K. Katusky, The Road to Power, / Der Weg zur Macht (1909).
K. Marx, Contribution to the Critique of Hegel's 'Philosophy of Right'. Introduction (1843).
N. Poulantzas, State, Power, Socialism, London: NLB, 1978.
M. Tronti, Sull’autonomia del politico, Milan: Feltrinelli, 1977.
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